van der Rohe and Farnsworth had a highly unusual relationship, apparently, with the house becoming the “child” in their marriage.
A source tells me: “Jeff and Maggie have been looking for another movie to do, and this script really appealed to them.”
Jeff Bridges to Star as Mies in the Scandalous Story of Farnsworth House. The actors Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal are teaming up again. The pair last starred in 2009’s Crazy Heart, directed by Scott Cooper, which nabbed Bridges an Oscar for best actor, a nomination for Gyllenhaal, and an award for best original song. Clearly, they work well together.
Now, according to movie blog Showbiz 411, they will play famed architect Mies van der Rohe and his most well known client, Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a prominent Chicago nephrologist, kidney doctor. In 1945, Dr. Farnsworth commissioned one of the German-American architect’s most iconic buildings, the Farnsworth House, which Mies van der Rohe built outside of Chicago in Plano, Illinois.
This joins the debate over Hollywood sexism in which 37-year-old actress Maggie Gyllenhaal recently unintentionally starred in a controversy over how she was rejected for a role because she was considered senior to play the 55-year-old actor's lover.
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